ESG

VK helps people and companies come together when it is truly important.

Our strategic goal is to create services that make people's lives more comfortable, convenient, safer and help society, business and the state in digital transformation.

VK’s ESG priorities include information security, personal data protection, and maintaining the high quality of our services. We are also rapidly developing online education and strive to minimize our ecological footprint.

People are our greatest asset. One of the most important areas of our ESG strategy is attracting, retaining and developing talented specialists. We build a comfortable, inclusive and fair work environment. We also care about diversity in the team: one of the key points for VK is the growth in the proportion of women in the company and in the IT industry as a whole.

College or university students can already become a part of the VK team while finishing their studies – and we work in close cooperation with Russia's leading universities to make this happen. We also help school kids discover the world of IT through our annual project Data Lesson or our career presentation event IT Knowledge Day.

We are also engaged in social projects, promoting online safety, transparent charity and digital service accessibility.

We develop our technologies while incorporating ecology concerns. We are in the final stages of bringing a new energy efficient data processing center online. We have also completed concepts of new data centers in Moscow, St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region.

VK's offices are becoming more and more environmentally friendly every year. We launched a program for efficient energy consumption - and we are already saving 15.6 mWh. In 2023, we launched a separate waste collection point at our head office, where employees can recycle 21 types of materials. We also hold regular collection campaigns for old equipment called 'Electrovesna' and 'Electro Autumn': in 2023, we recycled more than 700 kilos of equipment.

We promote ecology not only among the company's employees, but also with VK audiences. We have been organizing an ecology and environment Olympiad on the Uchi.ru platform for four years now.

An important part of our ESG strategy is ensuring high quality of our corporate governance. We have the Trust Service — a channel for reporting violations or suspicions. We believe in diversity and we support the growing number of women on our teams as well as the IT industry as a whole.

In 2023, we prepared our first combined annual report, which included the company's key performance and sustainability results. The transparency of the data in the report was confirmed by an independent auditor.

One of the company's most important objectives is to standardize all our projects and initiatives in the field of sustainable development. To achieve this, we develop policies and codes and publish them, making them publicly accessible.